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Thanks
The following people and companies have donated money or services toward the 1998 Surf-Fishing Tournament.

Alger G. Willis Fishing Camps
P.O. Box 234, Willis Rd.
Davis, N.C. 28524
919-729-2791

Energy Efficient Housing, Inc.
3761 Durham Rd.
Roxboro, N.C. 27573
336-599-1400

H&S Roofing
506 W. Summit Ave.
Charlotte, N.C. 28203
704-334-9934

Dr. Michael Laughlin
1600 Ebenezer Rd.,
Rock Hill, S.C. 29730
803-324-4258

LPL Financial Services,
6135 Park South Drive, Suite 104 Charlotte, N.C. 28210
704-554-1636; 800-501-7001

Oasis Landscaping & Irrigation
Pineville, N.C. 28134

Charles Wright
1006 S. Main St.
Landis, N.C. 28088

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Gray trout,
whiting highlight
spring fishing
When the weather cooperated, the fishing was tolerable this spring at Davis Island.
  Gray trout, whiting and small blues were scattered along the beach in May. DIFF members who joined the work group in mid-month caught a number of  nice whiting and some good-sized grays.
Other members who fished the island this
spring reported catching
small blues up to 17 inches at the cape.
In June, Spanish  mackerel appeared in the early morning and late evening at the cape.
There were no reports of any large drum being caught this spring.
The weather was less than cooperative at times -- windy and rainy in the early spring and hot and sultry lately. No-see'ems and biting flies have bedeviled fishermen on still days.
So far the local shrimp catch doesn't seem to have been affected by the winter's wet weather. A rainy winter can depress the harvest by raising salinity levels in the sounds, but the early-season shrimping has been good, and fishermen have been able to find fresh bait shrimp.